More or less a rant. I was trying to get an override to take CS 251 and CS 381 concurrently in Fall 2026 when I came across information that the department specifically ordered faculty members not to accept any single override requests from students.
I feel like this is borderline absurd. Those who request such overrides are well aware of what they are getting into and are confident they can handle the workload. Not allowing any override requests for upper-level courses is unfair to those who are willing to put in more work. It’s a net negative for the university too, since it’s holding back its best students.
Funnily enough, the CS department allowed students who used LLMed for all of their CS 240 homework to walk away for free??? What kind of logic is this? I understand that failing every single one would have been an unhealthy decision, but there should have been some middle ground between failing and no punishment, no? I really don’t get this logic of letting lower-performing students keep getting away with not putting in work while also preventing higher-performing students from putting in more work. It just does not click with me.